Explaining the object-oriented design patterns found in Apple's Cocoa frameworks, this book supplies insight into the design and rationale of Cocoa. With that insight, professionals will be able to effectively re-use the tried-and-true patterns in their own software.
Cocoa Programming is a comprehensive work that starts as a fast-paced introduction to the OS architecture and the Cocoa language for those programmers new to the environment. The more advanced sections of the book will show the reader how to create Cocoa applications using Objective-C, to modify the views, integrate multimedia, and access networks. The final sections of the book explain how to extend system applications and development tools in order to create your own frameworks.